Still running XP on my desktop PC!! I can't upgrade this machine as it's older than dirt. Not sure I want to anyway. I do most of my stuff on my phone or my tablet (well, except for all that Bookie Challenge spreadsheet stuff). Sooner or later the desktop will be replaced by a new tower running Windows 10 but I'm in no hurry.

BlueShoes1 wrote:Still running XP on my desktop PC!! I can't upgrade this machine as it's older than dirt. Not sure I want to anyway. I do most of my stuff on my phone or my tablet (well, except for all that Bookie Challenge spreadsheet stuff). Sooner or later the desktop will be replaced by a new tower running Windows 10 but I'm in no hurry.

Yeah the main reason I do this is it is a free upgrade until next July or maybe longer but only from Win7 and Win8.1

I have a XP Pro that has been running 24/7 since 2004 BUT I have a Win7 disk so next Spring before they end the free deal I will upgrade it to Win7 with the disk and then upgrade to Win10 so I will have all 6 for free and.......well I have used my XP Pro and Win7 disk a few times over the decade

The best part of doing the update from XP Pro to Win7 is it will be a 64bit instead of the old X86 32bit

The old 32bit only allows your pc to use 4GB of Ram no matter how much you have plugged in.

A couple years ago I upgraded its twin pc to Win7 and plugged in more Ram and a GeForce card I got for free so now the old 3-core is the fastest data processor in my fleet ...it just has 8GB ram now but I could add more.

Here is my list of pc's and you can see the XP Pro and its former twin is the one with the GeForce 560Ti card